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A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts or the possession of a television set. In some countries, a licen
1950s Postmaster-General's Department advertisement regarding broadcast licences
From 1922 to 1953 individual members of the public were required to pay for annual Private Receiving Station licences to legally receive broadcasting stations.
Stamped in Loviisa. The price for half a year was 3,000 Mk in 1960s.
A Taiwanese TV licence
NHK
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The Japan Broadcasting Corporation, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
Television licence
…debit. There is a separate licence for monochrome TV, and fees are slightly less in Okinawa. The Japanese licence fee pays for the national broadcaster, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK). Every household in Japan with a television set is required to have a licence, but in 2006 non-payment was described as "epidemic" following a series…
Headquarters at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Shibuya, Tokyo
Atagoyama Broadcasting Station, the birthplace of NHK, in 1930